The off-season grew more interesting

3 Championships runs, 1 ring, and a contract latter guard Jordan Poole has an opportunity to be the number one option on a young Wizards team. The wizards have never been strangers to big names such as John Wall, Russel Westbrook, Bradley Beal, Paul Pierce, etc. HOWEVER only one of the players mentioned had championship experience.

With a solid running mate with Kuzma, how far could the wizards go? Or as the title states, is this Beal 2.0

  • JKbHyperizin@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I saw some things from Poole that I felt were Kyrie-esque in their level of finish difficulty. And at one point felt like he had seen the matrix. He was also averaging 20 and carried the Warriors seemingly when Steph was out. But his abortion stretch really convinced me that was fools gold. Not that he’s bad. But there are like 8 Jordan Pooles around the NBA and they are hopefully not the top guys on their teams

  • Arooooooooooooooo@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Monta Ellis 2.0 I could see a We Believe Wizards run a few years down the road with PooZma, Bilal, Deni, some randos.

  • bb1432@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    As in, you think they can compete for the 10 seed?

    Man, ownership’s gonna be thrilled!

  • DoomPurveyor@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Wiz should be tanking, but Kuz and Poole actually kinda care and won’t accept just losing. Kuz straight up won a bunch of games for Wiz last season with Zingis/Beal out. They should have traded him and tanked for Wemby tbh.

    Poole now has something to prove with him being scapegoated and Dray/Pod friends sniping at him every chance they get.

    • nikop@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Kuz and Poole can care all they want about winning but they’re just not good enough for that to actually matter

      • DoomPurveyor@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        This sub has a hate bonner for Kuz and Poole. But the reality is, Kuz is a big reason why Wizards weren’t a bottom 5 team the last two seasons and Warriors don’t win a championship without Jordan Poole playing the way he did.

        • zippy_the_cat@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Warriors don’t win a championship without Jordan Poole playing the way he did

          You can say the same about them getting bounced out of the second round last season and be just as accurate.

        • nikop@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          lmao if the wizards weren’t a bottom-5 team the past two years they were pretty damn close to it and very clearly bottom 10 if you want to be generous. And that’s with Beal and Porzingis, both of whom are better than Kuzma and Poole.

    • thathooperhooper@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Poole already has his money but he left the warriors with question marks around his name. I’m sure he is itching to prove himself right.

      Wiz need just one more piece

      And You’re right it takes a certain type of player to trust the process

  • CabbageStockExchange@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Wizards should try and get Drummond or some other elite rebounder. They’d average 20/20 scoring and grabbing offensive rebounds

  • Cultural_Tank_6947@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There’s going to be nights where Kuzma and Poole will get you 60 points. There’s nights where they will get you 60 points on 25% shooting.

    Both guys are good enough to be 3rd/4th guy on a championship team, they’ve proved that. Jury is out on rest.

  • Zippa86@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    These clowns will be one of the worst teams in the league. Poole is garbage

  • Middle-Flatworm1417@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    All those players have one thing in common. They’ve never won a chip being the only guy. Highly doubt Kuz and Poole will get out the 2nd round without a reliable 3rd player.